In today’s top news, Canadian regulators are thinking about maybe doing something at some point about binary options fraud: Regulators from provincial securities commissions across Canada have now formed a task force to try to …
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February 28, 2017
Our poor little banks are complaining they don’t get enough subsidies: Canada’s financial industry is urging the federal government to consider alternatives to proposals that could require them to take on a greater share of …
February 27, 2017
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February 24, 2017
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February 23, 2017
Assiduous Reader Adrian2 sends me a link to a discussion of drones in Engineering school: Among the biggest adopters of drones, and experimenters with them, have been universities. As the director of the University of …
February 21, 2017
You know, if Trump can put a dent in supply management, I’ll forgive him one of his lies: While growers and exporters of U.S. crops and food products have expressed anxiety over Trump’s restrictive immigration …
February 17, 2017
Let’s close the week off with some rather dated (2014) anti-drone news: Watch how a US Military Naval ship equipped with a LaWS laser weapon-system destroys an enemy target. The laser locks onto its target …
February 16, 2017
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February 15, 2017
There’s a great piece in the WSJ about the practical effects of the fiduciary rule: Judith Friedlander, an 80-year-old retiree from Murrieta, Calif., doesn’t appreciate the government trying to regulate how she manages her roughly …
February 14, 2017
Wow. Toshiba might be going down: The chaos at Toshiba, the Japanese corporate giant, deepened Tuesday, with its chairman resigning and the company saying it would book a $6.3 billion loss related to its U.S. …